West Kentucky Coal Co. v. Kelley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “Seventh Circuit precedent . . . consistently holds that undeveloped, unsupported, perfunctory, or skeletal arguments in briefs are waived”
• noting that “Seventh Circuit precedent . . . consistently holds that undeveloped, unsupported, perfunctory, or skeletal arguments in briefs are waived”
• acknowledging that “undeveloped, unsupported, perfunctory, or skeletal arguments in briefs are waived”
• explaining that “statements of lawyers in briefs are not evidence”
• “unsupported statements of lawyers in briefs are not evidence, do not count, and are given no weight”
• “Tt must be remembered that ours is an adversary system, and it is not the job of judges to do the work of lawyers.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).